According to the 2017 installment, the percentage of Arab respondents who acknowledge Israel’s right to exist fell to 59 percent in 2017 from 66 percent in 2015. In that time, the proportion of Jewish respondents acknowledging that Arab citizens should have full rights declined to 74 percent from 80 percent. [...]
The latest survey – a representative sample of 700 Arab and 700 Jewish adults – was conducted from May to August 2017. The margin of error is 3.7 percent.
Some 48 percent of Jews do not want to have Arabs as neighbors, an increase of seven percentage points from two years before. In that time their willingness to let Arab children study at school with their own children sank to 51.5 percent from 57.5 percent. [...]
“A majority of Arabs and a majority of Jews believe in a shared society,” he told Haaretz, adding that they accept coexistence within Israel proper and feel that Israel is a good place to live. “They are committed to democracy as a mechanism to regulate their relations and agree that equality is the basis for coexistence.”
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